2022 NCAA Tournament Thread

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Bad Gopher said:
On one hand, Indiana took care of business against Wyoming, beating them by more than the number of points I would've predicted. That said, they didn't look very sharp...although some of that was due to the Cowboy defense, which was very good.
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Indiana got their bad game out of the way
 













Holy Man said:
Rutgers played bead defense down the stretch and that’s their calling card.
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That and they did a terrible job of blocking out, giving up too many 2nd chance points
 

Usually I don't give a rip about how the Big 10 brethren do in the Tourney, but I feel bad about the Scarlet Knights going down. I was pulling for Harper, Baker & Pikiell. Those guys were easy to root for, building something, anything in Piscataway.
 

When will Notre Dame wake up,quit being bullheaded ? Join the BIG TEN and Rutgers can pickup an go to well maybe the Sunbelt.
 



Rutgers 0 bench points. The worst at large NET and kenpom team goes down without a win in the tourney. I was cheering for them for sure, most likely won't sniff the tourney next year.
 

BTChamp said:
I think we can close this thread. Arizona beats Arkansas. Of course given my Nostradamus like future telling skills they won't even play each other and someone else wins. So, I guess we can keep this thread open.

Anyway, that is my pick.

I also have Rutgers beating Duke as the farthest advancing BIG team. I live by the seat of my pants!!!! Took me a grand total of 45 seconds to fill out my bracket, so my picks could get quite comical.
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Oops.
 


Spottedmuskie said:
I pick too many upsets too. Not really confident in any of my brackets
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I'm not really confident in much that I do.

Although I did pick Michigan to win it back in '89. Until they fired Frieder then I picked someone else. So I even got that one wrong when I had it right.
 

TruthSeeker said:
When in doubt, pick against the Big Ten. The conference is always overrated.
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I wouldn't say always but frequently anyway. It's almost absurd how the NCAA committee assigns these conference bids from year to year. In 2018, the Big Ten received 4 bids. This year and last year, the conference received 9 bids. You can't let a quantitative index rule your decision making. Does anyone really believe that the Big Ten was more than twice as good these last two years as it was in 2018? The conference was deserving of more bids than it received in 2018 (should have received at least one more bid) and less deserving than the number of bids it received in the last two years.
 

Spottedmuskie said:
Rutgers 0 bench points. The worst at large NET and kenpom team goes down without a win in the tourney. I was cheering for them for sure, most likely won't sniff the tourney next year.
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You might be right but maybe they'll import their 5th year seniors next season instead of having home grown ones and perhaps that will give them a boost.

Rutgers was in a similar, although worse, position than Nebraska was in 2018; good conference record but poor nonconference record. Nebraska didn't get a bid that year when the Big Ten received only 4. Rutgers gets a bid this year when the conference receives 9.
 

howeda7 said:
Tough loss for Rutgers. I like Mike Brey though. First NCAA win in a while for him.
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Holy cow, this is his 22nd year at Notre Dame. Never won an outright (one time a division :rolleyes:) regular season or tourny champ in the Big East, and only one time as tourny champ in the ACC.

That was the 2014-15 year, where they lost to KAT Kentucky in the Elite Eight, who then lost to Wisconsin in the final four 🤦‍♂️
 

howeda7 said:
Tough loss for Rutgers. I like Mike Brey though. First NCAA win in a while for him.
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I didn't see much of the game until the overtime but I was impressed with Notre Dame in the overtime. I didn't expect that much from them. They didn't look like they had Rutgers' muscle but they were tough and quick on both sides of the court. That freshman, Wesley, was a little wild but fearless and tenacious. The transfer center, Atkinson, definitely showed that some Ivy League transfers can play very well at the P6 level.
 

I'd had ND/Rutgers pegged as a close game that would probably go down to the end, with ND having a slight advantage, so it played out as expected. Was cheering hard for Rutgers, but alas.
 

Gophers_4life said:
Holy cow, this is his 22nd year at Notre Dame. Never won an outright (one time a division :rolleyes:) regular season or tourny champ in the Big East, and only one time as tourny champ in the ACC.

That was the 2014-15 year, where they lost to KAT Kentucky in the Elite Eight, who then lost to Wisconsin in the final four 🤦‍♂️
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That's all you need to do as the basketball coach at a football school.
 








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